Clouds Quotes

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...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue… — Chris Cleave
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell
Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. — Langston Hughes
I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under… — Joseph Conrad
The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night… — Charles Dickens
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves… — Marilynne Robinson
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like… — Alan Lightman
So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds. — Rhys Bowen
The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel… — Jeffrey Eugenides
My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and… — Jennifer L. Holm
Letâ€™s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the worldâ€¦Try walking around with a child whoâ€™s going, â€˜Wow, wow! Look at… — Anne Lamott
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night… — Khaled Hosseini
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high… — Laurie Halse Anderson

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